Description

This week we recap Datadog’s announcements, discuss Sequoia’s investment pivot and hot takes on Facebook’s intent to rebrand. Plus, some thoughts on heated pools…

Rundown

• Dash 2021: Guide to Datadog’s newest announcements
• The Sequoia Fund: Patient Capital for Building Enduring Companies
• Facebook is planning to rebrand the company with a new name

Relevant to your interests

• Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto
• Sphere has joined Twitter!
• Red Hat continues to grow, but IBM’s struggles continue
• Apple Safari browser might become the new Internet Explorer
• VMware/Dell split confirmed for November 1st
• Microsoft reverses controversial .NET change after open source community outcry
• Scaled Agile DevOps Maturity Framework 2.4 - Enterprise transformation without the risk of culture change!
• Amazon Web Services plans to design more of its own semiconductors, CEO says
• Hertz Orders 100,000 Teslas, Part of Plan to Electrify Fleet
• Web 2 Map
• Australia Buys Telecom in Expensive Push to Keep China Out of Pacific
• Microsoft acquires Clear Software to enhance connectivity to systems of record
• NewRelic acquires CodeStream to provide chat in developer environments, inks Microsoft IDE partnership
• Cisco Accelerates Innovation of AppDynamics Business Observability Platform with Intent to Acquire replex
• vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web
• EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR

Nonsense

• Open enrollment video for Facebook employees

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Conferences

• MongoDB.local London 2021 - November 9, 2021
• THAT Conference comes to Texas January 17-20, 2022

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